Pretty much, though Caterham was SE(C)R so not an option. It was pure LBSCR territory where there was space to terminate and berth stock (and room for a shed too). Housing development had already begun to spread south of Croydon by the time it was built, so East Croydon wasn't a viable terminus. Not sure of precise chronology, but quadrupling the main line, building the Quarry line, opening Coulsdon N, and the first rebuild of the Selhurst triangle are all 1900-ish
Yes it has. See post #2
Doesn't this also apply to the Green Park - Charing Cross section of the Jubilee Line?
Don't think the latter was ever wired throughout if at all, think it was just used as a headshunt from the Leeds station end. It connected to the line through what was then platform 12 (now 15) which wasn't wired until the c.2000 rebuild.
I don't recall Agecroft power statiob having electric locos, as they had RSH 0-4-0STs, a couple of which have been preserved. However, a few miles nearer to Bolton, Kearsley Power Station had steeple cab electric locos running from the exchange sidings on the west side of the mainline , dipping under that after a steep downward incline to the power station on the eastern side. I think most of the coal arrived at the exchange sidings from the NCB Walkden/Mosley Common/Astley Green railway system.
You may well be right. I see both of them were on the right of the line from Manchester to Bolton and I thought it was the one before the M62 (as it then was) but I was about 10 years old at the time so may have mis-remembered.
Pretty sure it is the goods branch from Aston station in Birmingham to the Windsor Street Goods Station, about a mile north of the centre of Birmingham. When Birmingham New Street - Walsall was electrified in 1966, so was the branch.
